,PROGRESSION: FIELD TECH V -VI CONVENTIONAL FT 5 TO FT 6 ACTUAL EXAM 250 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
14th Amendment - (ANSWER)This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the
United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected
at both the state and national levels.
16th Amendment - (ANSWER)gave Congress the power to pass an income tax
17th Amendment - (ANSWER)Direct election of senators
18th Amendment - (ANSWER)Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic
beverages
19th Amendment - (ANSWER)Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended suffrage to women
in federal or state elections.
Jim Crow Laws - (ANSWER)Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes
limited black voting rights
Poll Tax - (ANSWER)a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to
vote
Literacy test - (ANSWER)A test administered as a precondition for voting, often used to prevent African
Americans from exercising their right to vote.
Grandfather clause - (ANSWER)A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet
registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.
,Plessy v. Ferguson - (ANSWER)Supreme Court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal
as long as the facilites were equal
Progressivism - (ANSWER)the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better
conditions in government and society
Muckraker - (ANSWER)a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
Settlement house - (ANSWER)a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services
Jane Addams - (ANSWER)the founder of Hull House and settlement house movement, which provided
English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
Direct primary - (ANSWER)an election where voters directly select the candidates who will run for
office
Initiative - (ANSWER)process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot
Referendum - (ANSWER)The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the
legislature
Recall - (ANSWER)gave citizens a chance to remove an elected official from office before the person's
term ended
Florence Kelley - (ANSWER)reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for
female workers
Temperance movement - (ANSWER)campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
Suffrage - (ANSWER)the right to vote
, Carrie Chapman Catt - (ANSWER)Conservative leader of the NAWSA from 1915 - 1920 and pushed the
suffrage movement nation-wide
NAWSA - (ANSWER)National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women
win the right to vote
Alice Paul - (ANSWER)Radical suffragist supporting protests against President Wilson and formed the
National Woman's Party
NAACP - (ANSWER)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to
work for racial equality
Theodore Roosevelt - (ANSWER)President who reformed government through the Square Deal
Meat Inspection Act - (ANSWER)1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and
government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
Pure Food and Drug Act - (ANSWER)the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of
impure of falsely labeled food and drugs
Conservation - (ANSWER)The protection of natural resources
Woodrow Wilson - (ANSWER)Democrat picked him as their candidate, he was a progressive. became
President in 1912. Made a program called New Freedom. Also Federal Reserve Act.
Federal Reserve Act - (ANSWER)a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government
the power to control the money supply
Clayton Antitrust Act - (ANSWER)law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and
farm organizations
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
14th Amendment - (ANSWER)This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the
United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected
at both the state and national levels.
16th Amendment - (ANSWER)gave Congress the power to pass an income tax
17th Amendment - (ANSWER)Direct election of senators
18th Amendment - (ANSWER)Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic
beverages
19th Amendment - (ANSWER)Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended suffrage to women
in federal or state elections.
Jim Crow Laws - (ANSWER)Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes
limited black voting rights
Poll Tax - (ANSWER)a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to
vote
Literacy test - (ANSWER)A test administered as a precondition for voting, often used to prevent African
Americans from exercising their right to vote.
Grandfather clause - (ANSWER)A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet
registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.
,Plessy v. Ferguson - (ANSWER)Supreme Court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal
as long as the facilites were equal
Progressivism - (ANSWER)the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better
conditions in government and society
Muckraker - (ANSWER)a journalist who uncovers abuses and corruption in a society
Settlement house - (ANSWER)a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services
Jane Addams - (ANSWER)the founder of Hull House and settlement house movement, which provided
English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes
Direct primary - (ANSWER)an election where voters directly select the candidates who will run for
office
Initiative - (ANSWER)process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot
Referendum - (ANSWER)The practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the
legislature
Recall - (ANSWER)gave citizens a chance to remove an elected official from office before the person's
term ended
Florence Kelley - (ANSWER)reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for
female workers
Temperance movement - (ANSWER)campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
Suffrage - (ANSWER)the right to vote
, Carrie Chapman Catt - (ANSWER)Conservative leader of the NAWSA from 1915 - 1920 and pushed the
suffrage movement nation-wide
NAWSA - (ANSWER)National American Woman Suffrage Association; founded in 1890 to help women
win the right to vote
Alice Paul - (ANSWER)Radical suffragist supporting protests against President Wilson and formed the
National Woman's Party
NAACP - (ANSWER)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 to
work for racial equality
Theodore Roosevelt - (ANSWER)President who reformed government through the Square Deal
Meat Inspection Act - (ANSWER)1906 - Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and
government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
Pure Food and Drug Act - (ANSWER)the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of
impure of falsely labeled food and drugs
Conservation - (ANSWER)The protection of natural resources
Woodrow Wilson - (ANSWER)Democrat picked him as their candidate, he was a progressive. became
President in 1912. Made a program called New Freedom. Also Federal Reserve Act.
Federal Reserve Act - (ANSWER)a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government
the power to control the money supply
Clayton Antitrust Act - (ANSWER)law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and
farm organizations
